Sentence examples for environment lobby from inspiring English sources

Behind closed doors, advocates for education, children, the elderly, people with AIDS, parks, libraries and the environment lobby the Bloomberg administration and the Council to make the case for protecting their projects and programs.

The official, identified as Colin Roberts, the director of overseas territories, noted that the UK's "environment lobby is far more powerful than the Chagossians' advocates" and added that the British government felt there should be "no human footprints" or "Man Fridays" on any of the BIOT islands apart from Diego Garcia.

My question for you, New York Times, is how can you allow such strong voices such as corporations that promote war, destroy the environment, lobby for assault weapons, tax shelters for the rich, sell poisonous foods to people, the prison industrial complex that locks up innocent people, etc., and yet take issue when those that fight for animals give them a voice?

The recreation and environment lobbies get listened to, but we don't.

One of the cleverest things that the anti-environment lobby ever did was to convince us all to accept that the battle was about sacrifice.

BWC has tried to distance themselves from AAA, claiming that they "are nothing like... other auto clubs," and even linking to information about AAA's anti-environment lobbying.

The Centre for Science and the Environment, a lobby group, reckons that the pace at which clearance permissions have been granted has doubled in the past five years.

The principal brake to climate change remains reduced CO2 emissions that marine scientists and custodians of the marine environment can lobby for and contribute to.

But open data for crime, the environment, spending, lobbying and all other data collected about our cities, counties and states is a very good start to letting both governments and citizens see their world with eyes wide open, through the lens and analytical power of data.

But 18 states have now withdrawn this provision in an environment of lobbying by opposition groups to do so.

Shell was sued last year by Environment Texas Citizen Lobby and the Sierra Club, claiming violations of the Clean Air Act.